README for "Information Equivalence in Survey Experiments"
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This README documents the replication files.

# Codebooks: contains the survey questions and codebooks for the four survey experiments reported in our study as well as codebooks for supplementary datasets

1. Democratic Peace Survey Experiment: democratic_peace.pdf

2. Coercion and Provocation Survey Experiment (2016): coercion_provocation.pdf

3. Latura's (2015) Survey Experiment: latura_childcare.pdf

4. Replication and Expansion of DeSante (2013): desante_welfare.pdf

5. Correlates of War Project National Material Capabilities Data Version 4: NMC_Codebook_v4_0.pdf

6. Quality of Government Standard Dataset 2015 Codebook: qog_std_jan15_codebook.pdf

7. Correlates of War Project's Trade Data Set Version 3.0 Codebook: Trade_Codebook_3.0.pdf

# Datasets: data from the four survey experiments and supplementary datasets

1. Democratic Peace Survey Experiment: democratic_peace.RData

2. Coercion and Provocation Survey Experiment (2016): coercion_provocation.RData

3. Latura's (2015) Survey Experiment: latura_childcare.RData

4. Replication and Expansion of DeSante (2013): desante_welfare.RData

5. Correlates of War Project National Material Capabilities Data Version 4: NMC_v4_0.csv

6. Quality of Government Standard Dataset 2015: qog_bas_ts_jan15.dta

7. Correlates of War Project's Trade Data Set Version 3.0: dyadic_trade_3.0.csv

8. JSTOR Data (discpline: political science): 2017_07_16_jstor_poli_sci_discipline_all.csv

9. JSTOR Data (discpline: political science; search term: "survey experiment"): 2017_07_16_jstor_poli_sci_discipline_survey_experiment.csv

10. Majority white data from the CIA World Fact Ethnic Group dataset: majority_white.dta

11. Vito D’Orazio’s Joint Military Exercise dataset: jme_v1.1.csv

12. U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis’s Foreign Direct Investment dataset: fdi_data.csv (cleaned); FDIUS Detailed Country 1980-2007.xlsx (raw)

# R files: contains the R code that produces the analysis

1. Democratic Peace Survey Experiment: democratic_peace.R

2. Coercion and Provocation Survey Experiment (2016): coercion_provocation.R

3. Latura's (2015) Survey Experiment: latura_childcare.R

4. Replication and Expansion of DeSante (2013): desante_welfare.R

5. Loads functions and packages: survey_functions.R

6. Generates graphics using JSTOR data: jstor_graph_code.R

7. Analysis of real-world data for the Supplementary Appendix: real_world_analysis.R
